Climate change is making prisons even hotter and more dangerous

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By Brentin MockSep 28, 2015, 6:40 pm123 pts
This story was originally published by CityLab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is no population more captive to the effects of global warming than the incarcerated. And given the huge concentration of black and Latino prisoners in America, this is a classic case of…

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